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INTERNATIONAL DAY
OF DISASTER REDUCTION |
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Date-wise Events |
October 13 |
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Description |
- This day's earlier name was "International Day for
Natural Disaster Reduction".
- The objective of the observance is to raise awareness of
how people are taking action to reduce their risk to
disasters.
- The focus is on the traditional, indigenous and local
knowledge which complement modern science and add to an
individual’s and societies’ resilience.
- For example, knowledge of early warning signals in
nature can be vital to ensuring early action is taken to
mitigate the impact of both slow and fast onset disasters
such as droughts, heatwaves, storms and floods.
- Combined with scientific knowledge such as reports
generated by meteorologists, local knowledge is vital for
preparedness and can be passed on from generation to
generation.
- There is a need for focused action within and across
sectors by States at local, national, regional and global
levels in the following four priority areas:
- Understanding disaster risk.
- Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage
disaster risk.
- Investing in disaster risk reduction for resilience.
- Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective
response and to “Build Back Better” in recovery,
rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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